Recaps

Sylutia reflected on the settlement, the fall of Regas Kingdom, and her uncertain past before deciding to seek a Third Order monster to test her abilities. After preparing and entrusting the settlement to its students, she set out alone for Spider Forest.

• Sylutia recorded in her diary that the settlement was complete and that Regas Kingdom had fallen, and she planned to ask Lord Cassius to investigate her friends and family.
• Sylutia considered her mother’s power, the cause of her amnesia, and the risks of choosing a Core Secret Art as she prepared for future turmoil.
• Sylutia chose Spider Forest as a nearby destination where she could find Third Order spider monsters to test her Star Talent.
• Sylutia gathered her gear and gave the settlement’s students instructions to manage things during her two-week training trip.
• Sylutia said goodbye to the students, pulled up her hood, and rode away from the settlement alone.

Sylutia rode from Mammoth Town into Spider Forest to scout the dangerous realm, where she burned through webs and fought off a swarm of spiders. After setting up camp for the night, she remained unaware as a huge creature with eight red eyes moved toward her fire.

• Sylutia got information about Spider Forest from the Association in Mammoth Town and prepared supplies for the journey.
• Sylutia rode into Spider Forest and burned the web-covered trees and spiders to clear a path.
• Sylutia killed more than twenty Second Order White-Stink Spiders and drove the smaller spiders away.
• Sylutia soothed her frightened warhorse and continued deeper into the forest, sensing stronger spiders nearby.
• Sylutia camped overnight behind a warning array as a huge, silent creature with eight red eyes approached her fire.

Sylutia fought a White-Fuzz Giant Spider in the forest but failed to catch it after it escaped with its webbing. After learning that its strength depended on its nest, she searched for the nest the next morning and found a clue to its location.

• Sylutia used her Alien Star Aspect Power to dodge the spider’s ambush, then wounded it with her blade during their fight.
• The spider fled and sprayed adhesive threads, giving it enough time to escape Sylutia and end their encounter in a draw.
• Sylutia examined the spider’s information and learned that its Web-Weaving Nesting Insect Core Card greatly strengthened it inside its nest.
• Sylutia returned to camp, noticed her dinner had burned, and spent the rest of the night peacefully.
• The next morning, Sylutia used Emerald Eye potion to search the forest and spotted a clue pointing toward the spider’s nest.

Sylutia tested how [Stars] could seal abilities and devised a plan to defeat the White-Fuzz Giant Spider by making it swallow a flower ball containing seeds. After weakening the spider and sealing its core ability, she learned the advancement method for [Nesting Insect].

• Sylutia captured a White-Stink Spider and discovered that sealing one of its abilities, [Spider Venom Fang Lv.4], worked better than sealing the spider itself.
• Sylutia tested ways to use the Giant Spider's digestive venom, then changed her plan after her planted seeds were dissolved inside its prey.
• Sylutia lured the Giant Spider into swallowing an Alfalfa Flower Ball containing seeds, then rushed into its nest and set it ablaze.
• The Giant Spider bit Sylutia's armor, but the Blood Vine seeds inside it grew and weakened it until it collapsed.
• Sylutia sealed the Giant Spider's core ability and learned the advancement secret art for [Nesting Insect].

Sylutia recognized that her many gardening abilities made a cultivation-focused Core Ability the best path for her advancement. After killing the White-Fuzz Giant Spider and searching its lair, she found a corroded cup bearing harmonized auras of Dead Ember and Nightmare.

• Sylutia understood how Core Cards formed and concluded that a cultivation-focused Core Ability would best build on her strengths.
• Sylutia restored the White-Fuzz Giant Spider's Core Ability, but killed it when it remained hostile.
• Sylutia collected the spider's poison fangs and blood eyes, then searched its lair and cleared away webs.
• Sylutia found a damaged metal cup with two snake designs, whose auras of Dead Ember and Nightmare were in harmony.

Sylutia recognized a broken Twin Snake Cup as a relic of the Twin Snake Cult and returned toward Mammoth Town. Meanwhile, Prince Jabs and Princess Musa fled the Hundred-Eye Cult’s camp, were captured after getting lost in the World of Shadows, and Jabs accepted the cult’s offer to help restore his kingdom, leaving Musa worried about his future.

• Sylutia found traces of old ruins near the Twin Snake relic and concluded the site had once been a Twin Snake Cult stronghold before heading back toward Mammoth Town.
• Prince Jabs complained about the Hundred-Eye Cult’s camp, while Princess Musa tried to comfort him and Knight Everett warned Gerald not to trust the cult.
• After two weeks, Prince Jabs and Princess Musa escaped with Knight Everett, but they became lost in the gray-white world and were caught by the cultists on the fourth day.
• The cultists attacked the fugitives, wounding Knight Everett, and Jabs surrendered while the cultists bound him and Musa and knocked Everett unconscious.
• A cult leader promised Jabs support to restore the Regas Kingdom in exchange for using his royal status to rebuild the cult, and Jabs began to hope as Musa silently prayed for her family.

After recovering from her Spider Forest adventure, Sylutia reported defeating the Tier Three giant spider and finding evidence of the Twin Snake Cult to the Woodland Association. There, she received gifts from Yan and Florella, including the long-sought Cornflower, and was deeply moved by Florella’s friendship.

• Sylutia rested for several days in Mammoth Town after returning from Spider Forest.
• Sylutia showed her Mithril Badge to the Woodland Association, reported defeating the giant spider, and submitted the damaged Metal Snake Cup as evidence of the Twin Snake Cult’s past activity.
• The Association gave Sylutia two parcels, one from Yan and one from Florella.
• Sylutia revived the rare Mycelial Thread mushroom Yan had sent with a small amount of Emerald Nectar Aspect Power.
• Sylutia opened Florella’s gift, revived the dried Cornflower, and read Florella’s letter explaining how she had found it for her.

Sylutia recovered memories of her childhood and returned to the Dark Mist Mountains, where she named the growing base Lantern Town. She left the others debating whether it should eventually become Storm City.

• Sylutia remembered her childhood as the daughter of Xuelin Mezzalance and recalled her close, often quarrelsome friendship with Princess Elysia.
• After waking, Sylutia set aside her distant memories, resolved to grow stronger and return to the First Continent, and traveled back to the base.
• Sylutia returned to the base three days later and learned that its potatoes were growing well, while Gran reported that its walls and buildings had been reinforced with Castle formations.
• Sylutia named the base Lantern Town, and Gran and Elton approved of the name.
• Rachel urged Sylutia to rename the settlement Storm City once it grew, exciting Gran and Elton with the idea.

Sylutia cultivated cornflowers and considered how they could help her construct the Four Seasons Alliance’s Autumn Garden Core Secret Art, though high-grade gemstones remained a key obstacle. Reviewing trade requests from settlements in the Dark Mist Mountains, she chose to make purification holy water for Dark Sand River Valley in exchange for Dark River Magnetic Sand.

• Sylutia grew cornflowers with Emerald Dew Water and discovered their uses for dyes, eye medicines, and rare seed oil.
• Sylutia concluded that cornflowers could fulfill two requirements for her Autumn Garden advancement, while Sky Feather Soil and clear spring water could supply two others.
• Sylutia identified high-grade gemstones as the main resource she still needed for her advancement and reflected on the Dark Mist Mountains’ mineral veins.
• Sylutia reviewed the settlements’ supply lists and chose Dark Sand River Valley’s holy-water trade to obtain Dark River Magnetic Sand.

Sylutia developed the Moon-Waiting Ritual and used it to make powerful Holy Water, then received approval from Dark Sand River Valley to trade for it. She prepared to produce it in large quantities, though she would have to lead the prayers and singing herself.

• Sylutia spent a month balancing Lantern Town's affairs with her studies of Clear Spring Holy Water and the Radiant Moon Aspect.
• Sylutia performed the Moon-Waiting Ritual with a Second Order cornflower and created five vials of Second Order Holy Water.
• Sylutia sent a vial and letter to Dark Sand River Valley through a Falcon Scout trainee.
• Dark Sand River Valley confirmed that the Holy Water worked well and agreed to trade Dark River Magnetic Sand for it.
• Sylutia began planning large-scale production and resolved to overcome her shyness about praying and singing before the trainees.

Sylutia led the students of Lantern Town in the Moon-Waiting Ritual, singing an ancient prayer that produced holy water for Dark Sand River Valley. After preparing three hundred bottles, she entrusted the shipment to Reginson, who departed for the Dark Mist Mountains.

• Sylutia dressed in Silver Radiance Church garments and led sixty students in a procession to the white-stone pool.
• Sylutia sang the ancient prayer as points of light appeared, and the students gathered the blessed water into silver bottles.
• The students bottled three hundred portions of Moon-Waiting Holy Water, which Sylutia planned to send to Dark Sand River Valley and use to treat pollution sickness in Lantern Town.
• Sylutia gave the holy water shipment to Reginson, who promised to deliver it and bring back Magnetic Sand on his next return.
• Reginson told Sylutia to focus on developing Lantern Town, then departed with his transport team for the Dark Mist Mountains.

After six months of steady progress in Lantern Town, Anti Kingdom forces took control of Scorched Stone City, where General Bete weighed how to secure his power and reward his men. He spared a powerful horticulturist after learning she was connected to the Four Seasons Alliance, then settled his troops in to celebrate the conquest.

• Lantern Town’s sixty residents continued managing their assigned work, and students said the autonomy helped them improve.
• Viscount Xuefeng surrendered Scorched Stone City to the Anti Kingdom in exchange for his family’s safety.
• General Bete promised his adjutant that he would petition to make him lord of the city and considered how to build a loyal bloc of fief holders.
• Bete ordered his men to monitor and pressure Viscount Xuefeng, while delegating the city’s guild leaders and merchants to his adjutant.
• Bete ordered the knight captain to seize a third-tier horticulturist, but a scholar told him she was with the Four Seasons Alliance, so he left her alone.
• Bete settled his troops in the castle and had his men take Viscount Xuefeng’s liquor as the army celebrated its victory.

Lady Falan left Scorched Stone City after arranging for Sylutia to inherit her residence, while Viscount Xuefeng struggled under the Anti Kingdom’s harassment. A White Knight rode toward the city, leaving his purpose unknown.

• Lady Falan packed her belongings, left Sylutia’s room and the residence for her, and arranged for a Four Seasons Alliance branch to give Sylutia the golden key when she returned.
• Lady Falan departed Scorched Stone City with the Oak Barrel Chamber of Commerce’s caravan and traveled north toward her homeland.
• Viscount Xuefeng worried about his family’s future as Anti Kingdom soldiers repeatedly extorted and harassed him under house arrest.
• Viscount Xuefeng gave the soldiers a chest of coins to prevent them from searching his residence, and they left with the money.
• A White Knight rode alone through the wilderness toward Scorched Stone City.

A White Knight from the Holy White Knight Hall forced General Bete to release Viscount Xuefeng and the others from Scorched Stone City. As the group traveled away, Viscount Xuefeng and Scholar Heide reflected on Tia’s role in their rescue.

• A White Knight arrived at Scorched Stone City and announced that he had come to deliver a notice concerning Viscount Xuefeng.
• When Anti Kingdom knights tried to stop him, the White Knight defeated them and fought his way into the castle.
• The White Knight confronted General Bete, displayed a powerful badge, and demanded that Viscount Xuefeng, Lady Falan, Scholar Heide, and others be kept safe or taken away.
• Over the next two days, General Bete let the group leave Scorched Stone City and returned some of Viscount Xuefeng’s belongings.
• On the road, Viscount Xuefeng thanked Scholar Heide and discussed how Tia had earned the Holy White Knight Hall’s help.

A year after arriving in the Dark Mist Mountains, Sylutia reflected on her past and found peace among the cornflowers in her greenhouse. When the new year brought 112 Second Batch support members to Lantern Town, she welcomed them as the settlement’s respected leader.

• Sylutia marked a year in the Dark Mist Mountains in her diary, then wandered through the cornflowers and fell asleep among them.
• Sylutia dreamed of her former life on Earth and later returned to her usual reading, feeling that her memories had become clearer.
• A Second Batch Knight Attendant brought 112 newcomers and a large supply shipment to Lantern Town.
• Rachel greeted the Knight Attendant, learned about the arrivals and supplies, and helped the First Batch members settle the newcomers and inventory the goods.
• Sylutia attended the welcome banquet, addressed the new arrivals, and received warm applause from the hall.

A year and a half after Sylutia established her outpost, the Association rewarded her with three flawless gemstones suited to advancing her Core Secret Art. She began building the Autumn Garden’s environmental card, completing its basic structure and leaving it to stabilize before transplanting plants.

• Sylutia’s outpost flourished, exceeding the Association’s targets, and the Association sent her a treasure by Cold Wind Bird.
• Sylutia opened the delivery and found a Third Order Gold Pillar Stone, an Orange Moon Diamond, and a Green Haze Stone, all of flawless quality.
• Sylutia selected twelve plants for the Autumn Garden, including autumn fruits, flowers, grasses, and mushrooms.
• Sylutia used the Gold Pillar Stone, Sky Feather Soil, Orange Moon Diamond, Clear Spring, and Green Haze Stone to create the garden’s basic environmental card.
• Sylutia began stabilizing and refining the card, knowing she would transplant the plants only after it solidified.

As Gale Season brought toxic downpours and disrupted travel, Sylutia organized Lantern Town’s preparations and worried about protecting its greenhouses. She completed the first stage of her Autumn Garden and began transplanting plants, leaving the garden thriving with twelve species.

• The Great Serpent carried the Fourth Continent into Gale Season as fierce winds swept across the land and changed its wildlife.
• Sylutia discussed Lantern Town’s supplies, transport delays, and defenses with Rachel, Gran, and the other students, then ordered inspections and reinforcements.
• A five-day toxic downpour eroded the greenhouse glass, so students covered the roofs with straw and replaced it daily.
• Sylutia decided the town needed better greenhouse materials and asked the Association for help obtaining higher-grade glass.
• After completing the first stage of Autumn Garden, Sylutia transplanted twelve plants, including Cornflower, Golden Pear, White Camellia, and Purple Jellyfish Mushroom.

The Winter Knights invaded the northern Anti Kingdom, forcing it to recall its forces and seek help from the Eagle-Scorpion Khanate. In the resulting power vacuum, Prince Jabs and Princess Musa organized resistance in Regas, while the Hundred-Eye Cult prepared to act.

• Herders celebrated the Wind Antelope Festival and discussed how distant Mages created demand for antelope horns.
• The Winter Knights descended from the mountains and captured towns across the northern Anti Kingdom, routing its defenders.
• The Anti Kingdom recalled its southern forces and asked the Eagle-Scorpion Khanate for aid, while the conquered Regas Kingdom was left vulnerable.
• Prince Jabs and Princess Musa secretly gathered resistance forces in Valley City, and old Regas nobles came to Jabs to discuss rebuilding the kingdom.
• Figures in dark red robes watched Jabs's gathering and declared that it was the Hundred-Eye Cult's turn.

Dorothy, a genius alchemist from the Rainbow Glazed Bottle, accepted an assignment to support the Dark Mist Mountains and arrived in Lantern Town. She agreed to make storm-resistant glass for Sylutia, and the two began getting acquainted.

• A message assigned Dorothy to make glass for Lantern Town, and she replied that she would support the Dark Mist Mountains in exchange for triple contribution points.
• Three weeks later, Dorothy created a third-tier alchemical pendant while traveling through the Black Lion Wilderness.
• Sylutia learned that Dorothy had arrived with the supply caravan and went to meet the alchemist in a town restaurant.
• Dorothy introduced herself, described her alchemical skills, and offered to make high-grade glass if Sylutia supplied enough materials.
• Dorothy agreed to work for ice cream and Association contribution points, then listed her preferred accommodations.
• Sylutia accurately recited Dorothy's lodging requirements, and the two gradually grew more familiar despite Dorothy's repeated attempts to hug her.

Dorothy’s arrival in Lantern Town drew attention, while Sylutia gathered resources and prepared the greenhouses for an approaching storm. In the darkness, Sylutia discovered that Purple Alfalfa could support mushroom growth and cultivated rare Purple Jellyfish Mushrooms with the Mycelial Thread Aspect, though she sensed the Aspect could never exceed the Third Order.

• Dorothy showed the students her Mithril Badge with an “Excellent” rating and answered their questions at the restaurant.
• Sylutia sent scholars to investigate the unusual materials on Dorothy’s list and considered whether she could produce the requested Third Order ingredients herself.
• As a storm approached, Sylutia and the gardeners harvested their crops and sealed the greenhouses against the wind.
• Sylutia scattered mushroom spores in a dark greenhouse and discovered that their mycelium could connect with leftover Purple Alfalfa roots.
• Sylutia used Purple Alfalfa to nourish the mycelium, producing a small patch of Purple Jellyfish Mushrooms with the Mycelial Thread Aspect.
• Sylutia concluded that the Mycelial Thread Aspect’s potential was limited to the Third Order.

In Gale Season, strange grey mud crept into the Iron Wall High Cliff outpost and secretly drained soldiers of their energy until they died. The officers identified the creatures as mutated Distortion monsters but could not find a reliable way to eradicate them, so the commander requested help from Association headquarters.

• Grey mud slowly climbed the cliffs and entered a lookout post, where it attached itself to sleeping soldiers.
• Patrol soldiers became unusually tired and hungry, and an entire squad later died at the lookout post.
• After more deaths, the outpost commander ordered a lockdown and organized an investigation.
• The officers learned that the grey mud drained living creatures and could only be killed by extremely high heat.
• The commander sent a request for help to Association headquarters.

Sylutia learned from Zaria Todd that the Iron Wall High Cliff outpost had been corrupted by Grey Mud, which had left his squad exhausted and possibly infected. She sealed off the recovery residence and used her Clear Spring to purify everyone and the surroundings, but the wider threat remained unresolved.

• A four-person cavalry squad pushed through a blizzard toward Lantern Town, led by the Third Order Knight Zaria Todd.
• Patrol members woke Sylutia and brought her to meet Zaria and his exhausted companions at the medical residence.
• Zaria told Sylutia that Grey Mud had corrupted Iron Wall High Cliff and warned that his squad might also be infected.
• Sylutia examined Zaria, recognized his strength, and ordered everyone to remain inside while she assessed the contamination risk.
• Sylutia summoned her Clear Spring and purified the people and surroundings, causing hidden contaminated spots to flicker and disappear.

Sylutia and the scholars sought a way to detect and remove the rapidly spreading Grey Mud before it overwhelmed the Iron Wall High Cliff outpost. After costly pupil potions and ordinary Reveal Powder failed, Sylutia suspected the Grey Mud’s Mycelial Thread origins might help her find a solution.

• Dorothy demonstrated that Purcell Fire could destroy Grey Mud and asked Sylutia to find a way for others to detect it.
• Sylutia and the students tested enhanced Pupil Potions, but making a safe, effective version proved too costly and difficult.
• Sylutia tried adapting Reveal Powder with common alchemical materials, but it either failed to reveal Grey Mud or reacted to ordinary dust as well.
• Sylutia realized the Grey Mud might respond to the Mycelial Thread fungus it originated from and retrieved a jar of glowing purple mushrooms to test her idea.

Dorothy perfected the Reveal Potion Powder, and Sylutia led a group from Lantern Town to Iron Wall High Cliff to help combat the Grey Mud plague. The outpost guards accepted their message and powder but refused to let them enter, directing them to shelter nearby while they consulted the commander.

• Dorothy tested and refined the Reveal Potion Powder with Sylutia until it revealed Grey Mud as conspicuous silvery-blue traces.
• Dorothy and Sylutia produced the powder while Lantern Town waited for the Woodland Association to respond to its request for help.
• After the storm eased, Sylutia led elite students on a difficult journey through the Dark Mist Mountains to Iron Wall High Cliff.
• The outpost guards warned Sylutia that most of their members were seriously ill and that visitors risked infection.
• Sylutia gave the guards Knight Zalia's letter and the Reveal Potion Powder, and they sent riders to report to the commander while directing her group to an abandoned camp.

The commander at Iron Wall High Cliff received Reveal Powder and supplies from Sylutia’s rescue team, giving the garrison a way to identify and contain the Grey Mud plague. Before returning to fight the outbreak, he entrusted Sylutia with the Steel-Breaking Sword, leaving her stunned by the honor and its power.

• The commander learned that Grey Mud had spread throughout the garrison and ordered the afflicted areas divided and treated with heat before inspection with Reveal Powder.
• A messenger brought powder and a letter from Zalia, and the commander used the powder to reveal silver-blue traces of Grey Mud across the garrison hall.
• The commander led six elite knights to the Plank Road Guard Post to collect more powder from Sylutia’s rescue team.
• Sylutia handed over the powder and provided Perfect-quality flour and other food supplies for the starving garrison.
• The commander gave Sylutia the Fifth Order treasured sword, the Steel-Breaking Sword, and told her its abilities could be learned by a talented wielder.